conceptualismn.
/kənˈsɛptʃʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /kənˈsɛptʃ(ᵿ)lɪz(ə)m/, /kənˈsɛptjʊəlɪz(ə)m/, /kənˈsɛptjᵿlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kənˈsɛp(t)ʃ(əw)əlɪz(ə)m/ 1. Philosophy. Any of various views on universals and meaning regarded as intermediate between nominalism and realism; esp. the theory that universals exist (as opposed to nominalism n. 1), but only as concepts or ideas in the mind (as opposed to realism n. 2).Historically, conceptualism is particularly associated with the philosopher and theologian Peter Abelard (1079–1142) and some early modern British empiricists.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of ideas > [noun]
ideology1796
conceptualism1819
analytic psychologya1854
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > scholasticism > [noun] > conceptualism
conceptualism1819
1819 Monthly Rev. Aug. 431 He assaults Dr. Reid's whole fabric of conceptualism in the most vigorous manner, and really with very plausible arguments.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxv. 296 The doctrine of Nominalism has..been embraced by Hobbes, Berkeley, Hume, Principal Campbell, and Mr. Stewart; while Conceptualism has found favour with Locke, Reid, and Brown.
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. II. i. 29 This reality of conceptions, which is the point advanced in Conceptualism.
1907 Philos. Rev. 16 349 Among the Greeks the opposition of nominalism and realism finds its expression in Protagoras, Antisthenes, and the Sophists..and in Plato and Plotinus... A conciliation of these theories is found in the conceptualism of Abelard.
1952 R. I. Aaron Theory of Universals ii. 20 What Hobbes was attacking..was imagism rather than conceptualism, the notion that there must be an image before us whenever we universalize.
2002 Jrnl. Ayn Rand Stud. 4 132 Conceptualism..focuses its attention on the process of abstracting universals from their factual basis in reality.
2. Art. An art movement which emphasizes the idea or concept of an artwork as the essential aspect rather than the appearance or execution of the object produced. Cf. conceptual art n. at conceptual adj. Compounds.
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society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period
cinquecento1762
classicality1784
romanticism1821
classicism1827
Renaissance1836
classicalism1840
Queen Anne1863
classic1864
renascence1868
classical1875
modernism1879
New Romanticism1885
Colonial Revival1887
shogun1889
super-realism1890
verism1892
neoclassicism1893
veritism1894
social realism1898
camerata1900
peasantism1903
proto-Renaissance1903
Biedermeier1905
expressionism1908
futurism1909
Georgianism1911
Dada1918
Dadaism1918
German expressionism1920
expressionismus1925
Negro Renaissance1925
super-realism1925
settecento1926
surrealism1927
Neue Sachlichkeit1929
Sachlichkeit1930
neo-Gothicism1932
socialist realism1933
modernismus1934
Harlem Renaissance1940
organicism1945
avant-gardism1950
nouvelle vague1959
bricolage1960
kitchen-sinkery1964
black art1965
neo-modernism1966
Yuan1969
conceptualism1970
sound art1972
pre-modernism1976
Afrofuturism1993
1970 N. Y. Times 1 Nov. d23/8 Their commitment to creating sculpture that is emphatically present..sharply distinguishes them from the more attenuated types of Conceptualism.
1987 Art & Design Oct. 5 (heading) Abstraction, Pop art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and now Post-Modernism, have dominated British and American art since 1945.
1991 Creative Camera Oct. 38/2 We would guess that Damien Hirst (versed as he is in Conceptualism) wasn't trying to shock, but was hoping to ‘include the viewer’.
2008 Art Q. Spring 77/3 Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptualism and the creator of the ‘ready-made’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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